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Lot

№ 1566

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27 June 2002

Hammer Price:
£410

A post-Second World War M.B.E. group of eight awarded to Captain E. T. Crawley, Royal Pioneer Corps, late Sergeant, Royal Fusiliers

The Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) 2nd type; 1939-45 Star; Defence & War Medals; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (A S.P.); Coronation 1953; Regular Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (6447769 Sjt., R. Fus.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (6447769 W.O.Cl.2, R. Fus.) court mounted as worn, generally good very fine (8) £250-300

M.B.E. London Gazette 13 June 1946.

M.S.M. Army Order 98 of 1953.

E. T. Crawley was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Pioneer Corps, 9 September 1942; Lieutenant and Hon. Captain, 9 September 1943; Temp. Captain, 18 December 1944. He served during the Mau Mau rebellion as Acting Superintendent of Police.